Windows 95 emulated in the browser via DOSBox

by: Microsoft Corporation

Publication date: 1995

Topics: MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows, PC, Operating System, Windows, Windows 95, PC

Language: English

Compact pre-installed Windows 95 hard disk image and AUTOEXEC.BAT file packaged for DOSBox, which runs in the browser thanks to hard work of contributors to Em-DOSBox, DOSBox, Emscripten, and web browser engines.

This was originally hosted at win95.ajf.me, a site created by myself in May 2015, and inspired by the Internet Archive's DOS game emulation efforts (and using the same tech). Now it's on the Internet Archive itself. You can still go to that site if you want to know more about how this was done.

Addeddate: 2021-03-26 18:21:09

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: AUTOEXEC.BAT

Identifier: win95_in_dosbox

Scanner: Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4

Year: 1995

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Reviewer: ArchiverUser_326841 - - January 20, 2022
Subject: 640x480x16 Colors to 800x600x256 Colors

They need to fix when applying to 800x600 with 256 colors

Reviewer: Logan Carey - - January 16, 2022
Subject: Doesn't load

I was using this and it was working perfectly fine, then all the sudden it said it preformed an illegal operation. Now when I try loading it, it does something with a scandisk and then crashes.

Reviewer: Minifreak394 - - January 8, 2022
Subject: Laggy :(

I love the emulator but it lags a lot so, could you fix it please?

Reviewer: Bright_obsidian - - January 7, 2022
Subject: booting up

my emulator dosent load now

Reviewer: Toyrism 11 - - December 29, 2021
Subject: :)

i love it but change the year to 1999 so windows 95 don't crash

Reviewer: Friday Funkin9 De Sousa - - December 28, 2021
Subject: Problem

Only 1 star cuz my Windows 95 does't work correctly, also my mouse does't work :(

Reviewer: Geno1024 - - December 13, 2021
Subject: Epic

For those who found it crashes "sometimes", try to adjust the system time in Windows 95 to the olde time, for example year 1999. Then the crash may be fixed.

Reviewer: Amir Bolhar - - September 30, 2021
Subject: it good

its crash's randomly

Reviewer: Mr Lucas - - September 29, 2021
Subject: mouse don't work

Mouse doesn't move even when I click I don't work :I

Reviewer: Bezi621 - - September 29, 2021
Subject: crash

it crashes for start up for me

Reviewer: dorker831 - - September 19, 2021
Subject: epic

nice but looks like the os the same

Reviewer: Luke GamingBoi - - September 9, 2021
Subject: Its Great!

It is very great but when i try to open up Control Panel it just doesnt lag the emulator, but it lags my whole pc then freezes the emulator

Reviewer: operation420.net - - August 17, 2021
Subject: How do you stop it from capturing the mouse?

The emulator grabs my mouse cursor so I cannot use it in the host OS/browser. I had to use keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs. Is there a better way or "host" key?

Reviewer: CRAFTIONAL - - August 11, 2021
Subject: error when entering internet explorer

Hi, this windows 95 emulator is cool but when I try to enter internet explorer it freezes. I would like you to correct this error

Reviewer: CallenDV - - August 5, 2021
Subject: Good!

Honestly, its good! But the mouse did not sync.
I hope you can fit that in the future.

Reviewer: Gabriel msdos - - August 2, 2021
Subject: Lag in this senerio

It lagged in these emulated windows 95 Idk why but this is cool this emulated Windows 95 I'm using an old pc tho hope you fix it bye.

Reviewer: scrface122 - - August 1, 2021
Subject: keeps crashing

for some reason it crashes but it is good

Reviewer: Rafaelms - - June 12, 2021
Subject: almost every time it crashes

the emulator is great. but for some reason, whenever I'm moving, out of nowhere it crashes, and with that I always need to refresh the page to turn on the emulator again.
would it be possible to fix this failure?

Reviewer: Dominijan - - June 8, 2021
Subject: terrible

i am sad because my life is terrible, but the emulator is good tho

Reviewer: VEE_H - - May 27, 2021
Subject: Windows running inside my web browser

This is a technical marvel. I can even run Windows 95 on my fridge.

Reviewer: cowbunny - - May 2, 2021
Subject: sex B)

Reviewer: nara.gov - - April 21, 2021
Subject: Really cool -- Has some negatives

I want to start off by saying that this is awesome, I can't believe that someone managed to create an entire working windows 95 computer online. This is so much fun to just mess around on and get a taste of what they back in 1995 had to use. It does tend to take a while to boot up and sometimes crashes at random, but aside from that, it's really amazing and I would certainly recommend it to anyone.

Reviewer: Mo Rafiee - - April 19, 2021
Subject: this is very cool!

its very impressive.

Reviewer: Jax TheDemon - - April 3, 2021
Subject: I think it crashed?

so I opened internet explorer in the emulator and it froze. . it stopped working, I don't know if this is a problem with it or its just intentional or if it did something but I didn't know.

Reviewer: Marcus Vazquez - - March 29, 2021
Subject: fun!

so cool to do retro stuff

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